Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
GEORGE ORWELLEvery war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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